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| Title | Uncertainty as a source of mass violence: genocide, terrorism and passive and active bystanders |
| Creator | Staub, Ervin
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| Symposium | Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty
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| Series | Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
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| Date | 2008-04-06 |
| Subject-LCSH | Social Psychology
Terrorism
Genocide
Uncertainty
Fear
Threat
Anxiety
Humiliation
Security
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| Subject-Local | Extremism
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| Description | Dr. Staub explores the roots of altruism, the origins of violence including genocide and mass killing, as well as prevention, and psychological recovery and reconciliation. Dr. Staub discusses various conditions that can create uncertainty on individual as well as group level. According to him all these conditions frustrate basic psychological needs and/or create uncertainty about the ability to satisfy them. Dr. Staub emphasizes the role of uncertainty in leading to psychological and social processes that start the evolution of harmdoing and violence that can end in genocide. He focuses to a greater extent on the role of these processes leading to terrorism. Dr. Staub also explores how need frustration, uncertainty, and real grievances may combine in leading to mass violence. He proposes ways of addressing uncertainty and related influences in order to prevent violence, and the role of bystanders—passive ones in the evolution of violence, active ones in prevention. According to Dr. Staub the prevention of genocide, in part by activating "bystander nations" to respond to the beginnings of violence against groups of people, in part by developing ways to heal victimized groups, thereby to break the cycle of violence, and in part by working on ways to overcome hostility between historically antagonistic groups. |
| Publisher | Claremont Graduate University. School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences |
| Language | eng
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| Source | Original video: Digital video cassette; 60 minute DVM; Tape 8; recorded symposium presentation entitled, "Uncertainty as a source of mass violence: Genocide, terrorism and passive and active bystanders" from the symposium entitled, "Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty" April 06, 2008 |
| Relation | Claremont Graduate University Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws. |
| Type | Moving Image
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| Running time | 00:34:23 |
| Video Format - 40 Kbps | video/mp4 |
| Video Format - 300 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - 800 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - LAN | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Object File Name | lap00046 |
